Adding color to a scatter plot
In this lesson you learned how to use the color aesthetic, which can be used to show which continent each point in a scatter plot represents.
This exercise is part of the course
Introduction to the Tidyverse
Exercise instructions
- Create a scatter plot with population (
pop) on the x-axis, life expectancy (lifeExp) on the y-axis, and with continent (continent) represented by the color of the points. Put the x-axis on a log scale.
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
library(gapminder)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
gapminder_1952 <- gapminder %>%
filter(year == 1952)
# Scatter plot comparing pop and lifeExp, with color representing continent